> In Genesis 32:11 we find KATON-TIY, in Gen 43:14 we find $AKOL-TIY, in Deut. 9:19 we find YAGOR-TIY, and in Jer. 50:24 we find YAQO$-TIY, all with a dagesh in the T of the attached pronoun -ATIY = -ANIY, implying, in my opinion, that the xolam is not original.
Isaac Fried, Boston University> It would be a shame to mess up a nice theory by looking at wider evidence, where it is clear that simple verbs (aka Qal, no consonantal expansion) existed in three flavors corresponding to the three cardinal vowels: *qatal, *qatil, *qatul (aka in Hebrew: qatal, qatel, qatol). So in answer to your question, the Masoretes followed a masorah whose roots go all the way back to proto-Semitic and that can be traced in cognate languages, too. Pretty impressive. -- Randall Buth, PhD www.biblicallanguagecenter.com Biblical Language Center Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
